This unit contains a series a poetry lessons and poem suggestions on the poetry of war. Students will read and closely analyze several 'poems of war' and write their own poem as a culminating activity.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an author interview and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of of The Little Friend, the long-anticipated and widely praised bestseller by Donna Tartt, author of the critically acclaimed The Secret History.
This literacy assessment is based on a literary nonfiction text and includes six text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Raymond Carver's hardboiled fiction, The Long Goodbye. Author background, book overview, and discussion questions are included.
In this Random House for High School Teachers Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, students will explore plot summaries and discussion questions for each of the three books. This guide is designed to direct and enhance student reading as well as supply a number of research and interdisciplinary options.
An eclectic range of comic and tragic voices narrate this powerful book about the enduring power of love. Erdrich leads the reader through the interwoven lives of generations of Kashpaws and Lamartines in North Dakota. The Big Read Readers Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.
In this unit, students explore the relationship between love and war by examining texts on camaraderie among soldiers. After viewing a video on the topic and reading the short story "How to Tell a True War Story" by Tim O'Brien, students use freewriting as a means to develop a thesis statement stating their belief on the relationship between love and war. They then compose a visual collage depicting those beliefs.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of The Lowland, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. Set in India and America, it is a beautifully crafted and heartbreaking portrait of three generations bound and fractured by the demands of love and loyalty.
In this Common Core aligned pdf teacher's guide to Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, students will explore the themes of love, life, and death through this whimsical novel. The guide includes discussion questions and activities, as well as extension ideas.
Students will be introduced to Shakespeare's Macbeth by creating a scene using a script without character names and stage directions. Students will use inference skills to add movement and meaning to the scene. Students use dialogue only to discover the structure and format of the scene and create introductory decisions about the characters in the play.
Students will analyze the sisters in Macbeth by examining a primary source: Holinshed’s The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. Students will use the elements of visual literacy to analyze a woodcut from Holinshed. Students will synthesize the information from the primary source, the play, and the visual to create descriptions of the sisters.
In this lesson, students explore the relationships between and among elements of literature.
This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Gloria Naylor's book, Mama Day, a work that is at once a contemporary love story, a timeless generational saga, a chillingly believable tale of the supernatural, and a homage to the redemptive power of African-American tradition.
The following lesson plan uses Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace" to guide students through a close annotated reading of the short story with an emphasis on insight, comprehension, analysis, characterization, structure, tone, and gathering of textual support.
In this video from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, students will explore how growing up in the South during the Jim Crow Era influenced Maya Angelou’s writing. The power of memory and the importance of setting inform both the video and discussion questions as students are asked to consider why Maya Angelou chose to write about her own life in her famous autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
This resource is a side-by-side paraphrase of the prologue and a selection of portraits from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
This unit is a study of the shifts in narrative voice and literary genres that Melville makes throughout Moby-Dick. It serves to introduce students to several unique features of the novel without demanding as much class time as would reading the entire text. The lessons comprise a series of close readings of passages from the novel.
A teachers guide for The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner, including questions for comprehension while reading, prompts for class discussion, and suggested assignments post-read.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy, a novel about the trauma of living in colonial America during the birth of the slave trade.
In this lesson, students will use textual evidence from chapters I-XIX of The Awakening to respond to the prompt, 'How does the development of Edna's character contribute to two interrelated central ideas in the text?"